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Syntactical Devices - Jismi Mathew - Coggle Diagram
Syntactical Devices - Jismi Mathew
Anadiplosis
Definition: Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next.
Example: "'And then again, we may never know
exactly
.' '
Exactly
what?'" (Lisle 33).
Anaphora
Definition: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Example: "
It was
Marina
who served us supper when Jeddy asked me to stay over evenings.
It was she
who washed up after, darned her father's socks, hung the laundry, and took it down" (Lisle 14/15).
Antithesis
Definition: A contrast or opposition between two things
Example: "She'd been a frightened nine-year-old when her mother died. Seven years later, at sixteen, she was running the house" (Lisle 19).
Asyndeton
Definition: Omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join words or clauses.
Example: "She changed the beds, swept the floors, hauled in coal for the stove" (Lisle 15).
Epanalepsis
Definition: Repetition after intervening words.
Example: "Jeddy
might
swear he'd never tell him, he
might
truly believe we could keep a secret between us, but he loved his dad and stood up for him, and I knew how easy it would be to make a slip" (Lisle 55).
Epistrophe
Definition: The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Example: "Had
adventures
. What
adventures
?" (Lisle 39).
Polysyndeton
Definition: Using conjunctions in close succession, especially where some would usually be emitted.
Example: "Must be the liquor Prohibition back in the 1920s you're interested in, rumrunners
and
hijackers, fast boats,
and
dark night" (Lisle 5).